My heart sank when this morning's segment on the Today Show started off with Hoda Kotb announcing "... the growing popularity of... 'mommy blogs.'" She used air quotes, and everything. You could've substituted anything bizarre and mystifying in the quotations, actually. "Alien bloodsuckers," or "giant pink sea monsters," for example.

I turned to my husband. "This is not going to end well," I said.

But first, let me back up.

Everyone's buzzing about the Tom Cruise/Oprah Winfrey two part interview on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." So why shouldn't we at BlogHer do the same?

Last week, Pam Spaulding at Pam's House Blend delivered a petition on behalf of her readers and those at BlueNC and FireDogLake to North Carolina's Senior Senator, Elizabeth Dole.

I wrote my first play in the third grade sitting cross-legged on the top bunk with a yellow tablet in my lap, hollering at my sister to leave the room so I could 'get the words out in peace'. That night, my father, a gifted writer albeit a sentence contortionist, began quiet coaching. Lesson Number One: To write, one must read. Perhaps this is why, in the midst of my own writing doldrums (ha!

Has this happened to you, or have you been an Obama-apologist?

For US newspaper industry, the first of what could be many shoes has
dropped. With declining circulation and ad revenues, it's been
expected that some daily newspapers were going to have to
abandon print altogether. That's just about happened at Madison, Wisconsin's Capital Times which published its last daily print edition last Saturday.